19th Century America
- Westward Migration
- How the mail system worked throughout US history
- Stories from Pennsylvania
- Morse Code Translator
- Clara Barton Historic House (interactive)
- Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship
- Under His Hat (discovering Lincoln from Primary Sources)
- 11 Little Known Facts about Abraham Lincoln
- Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Teaching Tolerance)
- Story of Racism (video documentary on development of racism and eugenics)
- Slavery by another name (PBS - full movie)
- Slavery and anti-slavery (essay by David Brion Davis)
- Rise and fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
- Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South
- Sharecropping videos: Family of sharecroppers: emergence of sharecropping (PBS); slavery by another name
- Take up the White Man's Burden
- Texas & Impact of Industry
- Encyclopaedia of US History: Events and Issues 1840-1900
- Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture
- Editorial cartoons (Dirksen Center)
- HarpWeek (exhibits with post-Civil War cartoons from Harpers Weekly)
- Seward's Folly (acquisition of Alaska)
- US - Dakota War of 1862 (culminating in "largest mass execution in US history"); collection of primary and second sources on the war
- Rise of Industrial America (overview, Gilder Lehrman Institute)
- Evolution of railroads
- Shaping the West (interactive graphs showing growth of railroad system in the West -- tracks, unions, head of cattle, etc.)
- The richest man in America (Andrew Carnegie) (PBS)
- American inventors
- Andrew Carnegie (documentary from Biography Channel, with commercials)
- Pittsburgh's steel mills (photos & links)
- Edison sound recordings (voices of Edison, WJ Bryan, and others)
- Mining history and artifacts
- Lewis Hine photos (child labor)
- Lattimer Project (labor history; late 19th century)
- Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today (Scholastic)
- New York City: Power and the People (excellent documentary by Ric Burns)
- Ellis Island, Interactive Tour
- Immigration resources (Spartacus)
- Where immigrants came from (Spartacus):Big Apple History (PBS)
- Austria-Hungary
- Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia
- Ireland
- Italy
- Russia
- Sweden
- Immigration (Library of Congress)
- Immigration (process of coming to America in steerage, arriving at Ellis Island, and settling on Orchard Street; created by the Tenement Museum)
- Age of Imperialism
- Spanish-American War (Library of Congress - Teaching with Primary Sources); movies of the war
- Edison's sound recordings
see also